Food and Nutrition

homeless individual sleeping outside

Is being homeless the next public health crisis?

A new reporting project will "examine the health risks to the public that can occur when society and local governments neglect or underfund initiatives to alleviate conditions where homeless populations live."

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Domestic Violence, Housing and Homeslessness, Mental Health, Chronic Disease, Food and Nutrition
Patrick Warner, who goes by Pat W, says that music has helped him to understand himself.

Healing through our reflections: Dear Cleveland

This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Rachel Dissell and Brie Zeltner, participants in the 2018 National Fellowship....

Race and Equity, Mental Health, Food and Nutrition
Two-year-old Jesse Bryson enjoys a bag of Sun Chips during the Seamless Summer Food program at the Family Resource Center of the

In California’s far north, a vast food desert makes for hungry kids

Highly rural, the communities outside of Crescent City in Northern California are food deserts. “I hear from staff all the time, these kids are hungry when they come to school,” one school administrator says.

Environmental Health, Women's and Maternal Health, Food and Nutrition
“I buy shoes because I just want to feel youthful. I didn’t really have a childhood, I was too busy helping to raise a household

Where fighting poverty is a priority

In the “Compassionate City,” governmental unity has helped to reduce child poverty rates.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness, Food and Nutrition, Community Safety